This was reported to UNIAN by the so-called ‘Union of Donbass Volunteers in Russia', after its representatives met with Aksyonov and Surkov."Militia of Donbass will be treated in Crimea" - Aksenov said.

"I believe we have to support the public organization uniting volunteers who want to serve their motherland," he added.

Surkov, who oversees the occupied areas of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, is considered a mastermind of the Kremlin's undeclared war in Ukraine.

Borodai is a Moscow political strategist, who heads the ‘Union of Donbass Volunteers in Russia'. He was the first Kremlin-appointed leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. Later on, to make the conflict look more like a ‘civil war', Borodai was replaced with local resident Alexander Zakharchenko.